Jesus has been disabled since he rose from the dead carrying with him the burden
of the sins of every human soul, past, present and future.
God's decrees are not the necessitating cause
of the sins of men, but the fore determined and prescribed bounding and directing of men's sinful acts.
How is it moral to look to a child sacrifice as redemption
of the sins of people not even yet born?
So when we read about the tenth plague in light of Jesus on the cross, we can see that God is not to be found in the destroying angel who slaughters babies out of revenge or because
of the sins of a proud and self - righteous ruler.
The calvinists with whom I've dealt strain out a gnat of mystical experiences, then swallow the camel
of the sins of unbelief and failure to obey 1 Thess.
Christ died for
all of the sin of the world therefore everyone is saved.
If it were complete he would have somehow included the fact that although Jesus the Christ did die a torturous death he died not just «because»
of the sins of evil mankind, but He died «for» the sins of mankind, that is He died in man's place.
One
of the sins of the Church is to teach that this can be done by recipe.
Speaking
of sins of omission, Milligan relates none of these legal or historiographical facts.
Building tombs for the prophets could be a sincere repudiation
of sins of previous generations, but Jesus does not recognize it as such in his contemporaries.
Because God counts them to be partakers
of sins of those whom they defend, loving rather the praise of men, then telling them the truth.
He chose not to do so, because of the extent
of the sin of humans.
We have not repented deeply enough
of the sin of racism.
Yet every disease will let me look into the depth
of the sin of the world and the depth of my personal godlessness.
Speaking
of the sin of pride, your name reeks of it.
If it can be said that the Church is a sinful Church because
of the sins of her members (cf. Decree on Ecumenism, arts. 3 and 4), even though this sin contradicts her own nature and spirit, then we must attribute ecclesial importance even more to the good, inspired acts, hence also to all the prayers, of her members.
1) Original sin doctrine basically says we are born sinners because
of the sin of Adam and Eve.
You'd do well to look into the old ways of the «two» priests it required for the atonement
of sin of the people — one for the inner court and one for the outer court, and the two animals — the spotless sacrificial lamb, and the scapegoat of whom the blood of that sacrificial lamb was placed and sent into the wilderness.
The taking away
of the sins of OT saints didn't occur until the cross.
Someone who's gay needs to rid
themselves of the sins of the lust of the flesh, plus, they may have demons working on them.
Jesus died for
all of the sins of the human race, all sins are forgiven, for by one, and only one, sacrifice for sins forever, Hebrews 10:12.
When you try to disparage the Church because
of the sins of some of her members, you are simply flapping your gums to hear yourself speak.
Like you have said at other times, we sin everyday both willfully and involuntarily, and God knows that, and I believe Jesus paid the price for all of our sins and I believe
ALL of the sins of the whole world not just the elect.
I committed 5 lifetimes
of sins of the flesh, immorality, lies, cowardice.
Also, the very Word of God speaks that this would happen because
of the sins of America.
He called upon the Church to «repent
of the sins of existing society, cast off the spell of lies protecting our social wrongs, have faith in a higher social order, and realize in ourselves a new type of Christian manhood which seems to overcome the evil in the present world, not by withdrawing from the world, but by revolutionizing it.»
And it is indeed said of the successors of Jehu — Jehoahaz, Jehoash, and Jeroboam — that they did evil in the sight of the Lord, that the house of Jehu continued in the way
of the sin of Jeroboam, that it was not a holy house, and that the zeal of Jehu for the Lord was quickly extinguished.
From the great flood, to the drought inflicted on all Israel because
of the sins of King Ahab (I Kings 17), to the great wind that killed Job's children, the weather was assumed to be explainable by reference to God (or gods, in other religions) and to divine pleasure or displeasure with people.
The danger
of the sin of adultery is not that God can not forgive it, but that adultery destroys marriages and destroys lives.
However, because
of the sin of Adam and Eve, all men and women are separated from God by sin, a chasm that we can not fill by any actions or good deeds.
We are well aware
of the sins of all the nations, including our own, which have contributed to the chaos of our era.
c) What
of the sins of the flesh?
Blacks and women deal indeed with the effects
of the sins of others, but it was as if the corporate sins of the others totally absorbed all the sin there is.
We make now another point which follows on from the real, the actual impact upon the creation,
of the sin of man, and the rejection of God and his Christ.
The OT is a massive narrative of the effect
of the sin of man on generations of created peoples.
I mean if God did well enough to see fit to install this perfect plan called salvation before the foundation of man, that who so ever believes that Jesus took not only one for the team or mankind but
all of the sins of mankind upon Himself, that in this gift provides freedom liberty and justification?
Love doesn't struct, doesn't have a swelled head, doesn't force itself on others, isn't always «me first,» doesn't fly off the handle, doesn't keep score
of the sins of others, doesn't revel when others grovel, takes pleasure in the flowering of truth, puts up with anything, trusts God always, always looks for the best, never looks back, but keeps going to the end.
Not only issues of personal sin, but national sin, and the impact
of the sins of «pagan» nations surrounding them.
Apparently, the BLOB thinks that the amount of money one donates to certain causes absolves one
of the sin of pride.
People repented
of their sins of slavery and idolatry and came to know the love of Christ.
People might claim we shouldn't repent
of the sin of slavery because, for recent immigrants, our ancestors didn't own slaves.
The guilt is on both sides, but ministers never should forget that when they encounter the resentment, the misunderstanding, or sometimes just the plain ignorance of what the Christian ministry is, they are in part seeing the consequences
of the sins of the Church and churchmen through the centuries.
He suffers indeed as a consequence
of the sin of men.
If he speaks
of the sins of his people and his community as though he were exempt from the failings of the rest of humanity, he will, in effect, be speaking down to his people.
The trouble is, we have a very surface level view
of the sins of the American Church.
It really bugs me because these marriage problems are not actually the result of the po - rn itself, or even because
of the sin of lust.
In his book on AIDS, John Fortunato quotes an evangelical chaplain who began every initial conversation with gay AIDS patients with a harsh denunciation
of the sin of homosexual practice (AIDS: The Spiritual Dilemma Harper & Row, 1987], pp. 103 - 104).
Looking back on a similar story in the Organization of Southwest Communities, von Hoffman laid this result squarely at the door of the clergy — who, he complained, were «practically a caricature, a cartoon,
of the sins of omission and commission.»
When he created the universe, he saw the sufferings which humans would endure as a result
of the sin of those original humans.
There was a fuller recognition
of the sin of war yet of its necessity.